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StarCluster documentation (v. 0.92rc1)

Welcome to StarCluster's main documentation. StarCluster is a utility for creating
and managing general purpose computing clusters hosted on Amazon's Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2). StarCluster utilizes Amazon's EC2 web service to create and
destroy clusters of Linux virtual machines on demand.
StarCluster aims at being simple, hackable, and extensible.

StarCluster is under constant development. The main implemented features are:

User-contributed Plugins - Plugins allow users to perform additional setup routines on the cluster after StarCluster's defaults. Plugins are called when adding/removing a node as well as when restarting/shutting down the entire cluster

EBS-Backed Clusters - Support for starting/stopping EBS-backed clusters on EC2

Cluster Compute/GPU Instances - Support for the new Cluster Compute and GPU Cluster Compute instance types

Add/Remove Nodes - Support for adding/removing nodes to a running cluster